Solar dyeing

In this solar dyeing with plants tutorial you will learn how to extract beautiful colours from a variety plant material using only the sun to drive the process.

Solar dyeing is my favorite way to dye in the sticky southern summer heat because standing over a roarin’ fire is not fun in summertime.

During our Wild Living week of summer camp, we dyed merino wool with a variety of natural materials grown or gathered right here. They are (mostly) solar dyed, meaning we used the hot summer sun to heat up our dye material and it worked out great! Read on to see what we used to create these beautifu

Beginners Guide to Solar Dyeing. Step by step tutorial and video, it will teach you how to dye fabric scraps naturally using solar power.

Slow dyeing with fermentation and solar dye process

Beans. I’m not a fan. However, black bean dye has the potential to make my favorite color – teal blue. The first time I soaked black beans for 24 hours, I was wowed by the purple. Purp…

solar natural dyeing

Solar dyeing is an easy, natural, and fun way to give yarn color and character that requires little work and results in non-repeatable, beautiful colors!

In today’s blog post I want to talk about solar dyeing yarn with natural dyes. But what is solar dyeing, actually? It is a special technique